Discipline Quotes

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

So I come back again to the condition that the Golden Rule, if one adopts it, is a difficult master to serve. The ship’s captain will not throw the compass overboard because the wind blows fair and the day is funny. For he knows, from the experiences of the ocean’s instability, that the danger days of storm are always “just ahead.” So the compass must always be handy and obedience to it must always be loyal. And so with the Golden Rulle—the compass must be ever at hand through life’s journey. It will see us through trying times. And perhaps the most trying of all times comes when success is riding high and we may be tempted to “throw the compass overboard.” It is then we must remember that all good days in human life come from the mastery of the days of trouble that are forever recurrent.

~ James Cash Penney

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss, it's about takingresponsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

~ Cesar Millan

Mothers and fathers must be gentle at least some of the time. Mothers and fathers must also be strict at least some of the time. Most of the time, though, most mothers and fathers must be mostly strict and gentle together.

~ Connie Kerbs

What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and silence. It is not discipline, but something that festers inside a child, arousing his rebellious feelings.

~ Maria Montessori

Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

~ Michel Foucault

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

~ Kenneth Atchity

The mechanical clock was self-contained, and once horologists learned to drive it by means of a coiled spring rather than a falling weight, it could be miniaturized so as to be portable, whether in the household or on the person. It was this possibility of widespread private use that laid the basis for 'time discipline,' as against 'time obedience.' One can ... use public clocks to simon people for one purpose or another; but that is not punctuality. Punctuality comes from within, not from without. It is the mechanical clock that made possible, for better or worse, a civilization attentive to the passage of time, hence to productivity and performance.

~ David S. Landes

There’s discipline, Mahrree knew, and then there’s abuse. The first works, while the second never does. And some people, like Lemuel Thorne, had no idea there was even a difference.

~ Trish Mercer

The promises you speak over your children can take on the weight of destiny.

~ Neil Kennedy

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

~ David Brooks

Entrepreneur, make today count and but don't let the day count you.

~ Onyi Anyado

Oh, my father, such a difficult man.His world turned on his axis.From The Father Tamer in BREATHE IN

~ Eileen Granfors

Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done. Most of it is not like fairy dust in the least.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.

~ Annie Dillard

The disciplined soul hardly needs Yoga to control the body it temporarily resides in.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

don't ever think that you're a single in total freedom,but think of combating the forces of lust.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade…. The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance. – T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom

~ T.e. Lawrence

The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve.

~ Pearl Zhu

Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.

~ Lytton Strachey

It’s our version of a black hole. Just like amply compact mass can distort space and time to cause a black hole, a sufficiently dense breach of discipline in our office causes a black hole that sucks the offender away for eternity, never to spit back!

~ Pawan Mishra

Good manners is the fabric that holds the community together.

~ David Esabwa

In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.

~ Cheryl Burke

Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.

~ Chris Matakas

Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesn’t. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of one’s craft, and there is the exponential lifting of performance by the selfless combination of efforts.

~ Ken Goldstein

Being best at things has nothing to do with talent, it is all about self - discipline and commitment.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.

~ Ilona Mialik

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

~ Robert Mckee

... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Materialism wars against our souls in a twofold manner. First, it makes us discontent and envious of others. Second, it leads us to pamper and indulge our bodies so that we become soft and lazy. As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually. When Paul talked about making his body his slave, so that after having preached to others he himself would not be disqualified, he was not thinking about physical disqualification, but spiritual. He knew well that physical softness inevitably leads to spiritual softness. When the body is pampered and indulged, the instincts and passions of the body tend to get the upper hand and dominate our thoughts and actions. We tend to do not what we should do, but what we want to do, as we follow the cravings of our sinful nature.

~ Jerry Bridges

Because the American people have traditionally taken a warlike, but not military, attitude to battle, and because they have always coupled a certain belligerence - no American likes being pushed around - with a complete unwillingness to prepare for combat, the Korean War was difficult, perhaps the most difficult in their history.

~ T.r. Fehrenbach

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

~ Osho

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

~ Lao Tzu

football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery, the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci